Find out what’s on in Saitama this weekend with the best Saitama event list on the web. If its on in Saitama, its on insaitama.com!Please see the grey “details box” at the bottom of each individual event for dates, hours, prices, location and external links.

Funassyi, one of Japan’s most loved mascots, usually attends the festival. How many of Saitama’s mascots will participate? It remains to be seen. Currently (July 8th 2019) they are recruiting mascots for the 2019 festival. In 2017 this was the full line up of Japanese mascots who participated:

Over the years they have even had mascots participating from different countries around the world including Germany, Taiwan and America. In 2017 over 40 mascots from overseas attended this Guinness World RecordHolding event. The biggest number of participants from overseas they had to date. Will there be even more this year!? So far they have mentioned America and Israel for 2019.

The festival attracts around 270,000 visitors. They come for the mascots and also the food or gourmet as they call it.

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For more fun and interesting things to do in Saitama, please click on “all events” to be taken to a calendar of events for Saitama. You can find some really unique “only in Japan” events coming up in Saitama. Most of the content I provide is translated from official websites that have no English page. My only aim is to help non-Japanese speaking foreigners living in Saitama (and those commutable from Saitama in places such as Tokyo and Gunma) get the most out of all the great things Saitama has to offer.